“A bottomless pit of violence,
a Tower of Babel where all
are speakers and no hearers.”
~ Alexander Smith ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Posts Tagged With: Hubris
TOUR DE BABEL
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Babel, Benevolence, Chaos, Compassion, Digital Imagery, Empathy, Hubris, Language, Life, Love, Mercy, Paris, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Understanding, Weight
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NEMESIS
“History has a Nemesis for every sin.”
~ Theodor Mommsen ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Compassion, Dark Ages, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Hubris, Humanity, Ignorance, Intolerance, Kindness, Life, Love, Nemesis, Oblivion, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Selfishness, Shadows, Street Art, Time, Tribalism
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SMALL HANDS
“Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid.
There is no hope in it; there is no light in it.
It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation.”
~ Charles M. Blow ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a crop of an original photo of street art taken in Mainz Kastel, Germany in July 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry, Street Art
Tags: Bigotry, Bullshit, Digital Imagery, Greed, Hate, History, Homophobic, Hubris, Immigrants, Intelligence, Lies, Life, Pedophilia, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Pseudo-Christian Values, Pussy Grabber, Racism, Republicans, Sexism, Sheep, Street Art, The Poor, Trump, Veterans, White Privilege, White Supremacy, Working Classes
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A SEA OF HUMANITY
“Anyone who believes exponential growth
can go on forever in a finite world
is either a madman or an economist.”
~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.
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Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Berlin, Cesspool, Compassion, Copulation, Death, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, History, Hubris, Humanity, Ignorance, Intelligence, Life, Obsession, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Science, Sex, Violence
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RUINS
“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;
but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”
~ Comte de Lautréamont ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 1981.
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Categories: History, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Civilization, Digital Imagery, History, Hubris, Human Folly, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ruins
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